Mood In Eleanor And Park

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The general mood of in the novel Eleanor and Park is suspenseful. Rowell creates this suspenseful mood by setting the scene perfectly normal but then all of sudden one thing said or done by a character changes the whole dynamic of the sense. For example when Eleanor and Park were talking on the phone Park asked Eleanor why they can’t they can’t be together. Then all of sudden Eleanor begins to cry. The narrator says, “Why can’t there?” he asked. She laughed. That’s when she realized she was crying. (107) Another example is at Eleanor’s dinner table on Christmas. The narrator says, “But you couldn’t enjoy the fact that he was in a good mood, because it was the kind of good mood that was just on the edge of a bad one. They were all waiting for

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